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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 990820, member: 26302"]Well you assume that just because a coin hadn't been minted for a while they were out of circulation. In the bible they referenced a lepton that hadn't been minted in 80 years, did that mean the widow did not throw hers in?</p><p><br /></p><p>Just becasue a denomination hadn't been minted recently does not mean that people did not know the denomination. The word penny is linguistically derived from pfenning, but its term of value was the denarius, hance the d abbreviation. All of the colonists reference to a penny came from their British heritage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 990820, member: 26302"]Well you assume that just because a coin hadn't been minted for a while they were out of circulation. In the bible they referenced a lepton that hadn't been minted in 80 years, did that mean the widow did not throw hers in? Just becasue a denomination hadn't been minted recently does not mean that people did not know the denomination. The word penny is linguistically derived from pfenning, but its term of value was the denarius, hance the d abbreviation. All of the colonists reference to a penny came from their British heritage.[/QUOTE]
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